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From: Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>
To: Salahaldeen.Altous@leica-camera.com
Cc: yocto@lists.yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: [yocto] Installing Multiple Versions of the Same Library with a single recipe
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 10:21:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANNYZj-jpR_nynmp69D5rsYaOaiCMxHWAOMj7QxjmX-eWc92qw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25936.1714032993891718853@lists.yoctoproject.org>

On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 at 10:16, Altous, Salahaldeen via
Lists.Yoctoproject.Org
<Salahaldeen.Altous=leica-camera.com@lists.yoctoproject.org> wrote:
> the reason behind that, that this company have one external module which development in the past with an early version of this library and currently there is a new module which developed with the new version.
>
> I know the right way is to rewrite the old module with the new lib version but for some reasons (no access to source code/no resources!!) this company want to reuse the old module as it is.

You can of course create multiple recipes, but if those recipes
install different files into same locations, you're setting up a
situation where both versions may need to be present at the same time,
and that will error out with conflicts.

Alex


      reply	other threads:[~2024-04-25  8:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-24 14:59 Installing Multiple Versions of the Same Library with a single recipe Altous, Salahaldeen
2024-04-25  7:29 ` [yocto] " Alexander Kanavin
2024-04-25  8:16   ` Altous, Salahaldeen
2024-04-25  8:21     ` Alexander Kanavin [this message]

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